Garment



Aug. 11, 1931.

D. BLAIR 1,817,915

GARMENT Filed May 24, 1930 2 4 Fig. 1

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mvmroa J d Blair ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 11, 1931 DAVID BLAIR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS GARMENT Application filed May 24, 1930. Serial No. 455,440.

The invention relates to a separable garment such as a combined corset and brassiere and its object is to provide novel means by which the upperpart of a garment as a brassire is removably attached to the lower part or corset and is positively positioned thereon and prevented from gapping or riding when the wearer is stooping or her body is in active motion in recreational endeavor or in sports.

The invention consists in a member carried by the lower part of a garment and adapted to receive a section of the upper part that is attachable to the lower part.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure l is a rear elevational view of the assembled corset and brassiere and Fig. 2 an enlarged view of a fraction of the same partly detached.

In the illustrative embodiment of the invention 1 represents acorset and 2 a brassiere. A loop 3 is secured to the central upper rear portion of the corset. The brassiere is formed in the body encircling section 1 and the rear sections 5 and 6 that are secured to one end of the section 4:. The section 6 is extended through the loop 3 and carrier an eye 7 at its free end which is adapted to be engaged by a hook 8 carried on the rear side of the opposite end of the section 4:. Similarly hooks 9 on the latter end of section 4 are engageable in eyes 10 carried at the free end of the section 5.

Suitable fasteners may be provided on the brassiere that will engage cooperating members on the corset by which the brassiere may be attached to the corset. I do not show the fasteners as they may be in any form and located at any convenient or desirable point.

The loop 3 preferably contains a short, suitably covered strip commonly known as corset boning so that the loop will remain fiat and suficiently rigid to hold the upper part of the garment in position when the section 6 is engaged in the loop.

The upper part of the garment is readily removed from the lower part for cleansing and the form illustrated is but one of many to which the invention is adaptable, such as girdles, step'ins, bandeau sets, uplift garments, underwear and the like.

WVhat I claim is:

1. In a garment the combination of an upper body encircling member, two sections one above the other and extending from one end of the body encircling member, securing means at the free ends of both extending sections to cooperate with securing means on the opposite end of the body encircling member for detachably securing the same together, a lower body encircling member and a loop secured to the upper portion of said lower member, the lower extension on the upper body encircling member being adapted to be extended through the loop.

2. In a garment the combination of a brasslere, two sections one above the other and extending from one end of the brassiere, cooperating members on the opposite end of the brassiere and on the free ends of both extending sections for detachably securing the same together, a corset and a loop on the upper rear portion of the corset adapted to receive the lower extension section on the brassiere.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

DAVID BLAIR. 

